AP U.S. History / Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
8.9 The Great Society
Notes
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society aimed to end poverty and racial injustice: Medicare and Medicaid (1965), the War on Poverty, education aid, and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (ended national-origin quotas).
Practice
Medicare provides health insurance for:
1965.
The Immigration Act of 1965:
Changed immigration patterns.
The Great Society was led by:
1964–1968.
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